Amelia Josephine Burr Quotes
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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To go back means defeat.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
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I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
